Government vs or by The People?

In the news today, both mainstream and alternative, you’ll find ample stories depicting The Government as some entity of its own, as if it had its own life… made its own decisions. You’ll find The People responding to The Government as if to confirm this is true, treating it as if it was an individual force that we have to support or fight. The People have referred to The Government as the entity that keeps us safe and The People have also referred to it as the entity that oppresses and enslaves us…

the entity we must fight to ensure our freedoms.

As the video depicts above, this “entity” is but one tiny dot compared to The People; and yet we often feel powerless against it! Or on the other side of the spectrum, the “entity” is but one tiny dot, and yet somehow it has the power to “protect us and keep secure our freedoms.”

GOVERNMENT INC

Either way you look at it, it seems we have all come to accept The Government as an entity of its own. But is that so true? Does that make any sense? Sure, I can hear many of you saying “its been incorporated, so yea, it is an entity of its own”… but still yet, “The Government” was an idea born from “The People” to facilitate improvements to our society that make everyone’s daily lives better. We needed an organization to plan and execute the building of streets, the protection of the innocent from the crazy humans amongst us, the relations with other “Governments”/People. It was an IDEA that somehow we have given autonomy to!

But what is the reality? The Government is OUR system that WE put in place to HELP all of us. In theory thats what it is supposed to be now, but do you know ANYONE that voted on income taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, capital gain taxes, corporate taxes, import taxes, and the systematic elimination of the freedoms that all humans have the right to enjoy? WHO does all this benefit? When you follow the money, it seems to be benefitting major corporations, not the people.

So what happened? It seems like major, greedy, power-hungry corporations (driven by people) took over our Government and started making all the decisions for us. Why are we allowing it? Do we even realize it has happened?

DEMOCRACY

de·moc·ra·cy
/diˈmäkrəsē/
Noun
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Most people would agree that Democracy is good. It is the way to enable governments that are BY the people. But how many of us have actually taken an honest look at Democracy as if it was the first time we heard of it? Most of us are raised on the notion, the feeling of it. We don’t question it, somewhere inside we just feel that it is good, and when we don’t like what our governments are doing, we feel as though Democracy is not being adhered to. But perhaps the problem is with the very system itself?

A FIRST LOOK

Looking at the definition above, lets consider what it means:

A system of government by the ELIGIBLE (huh?) population through elected representatives (eh?).

First of all, what makes the population NOT eligible? Luckily as a society we have recently been able to transcend our differences of religion and race so that does not (anymore) play a role in eligibility. Now it seems to be just your age and your nationality… not so bad, though could argue some points here.

Now we get to the real nitty gritty… “through elected representatives”. OK – Who here adores politicians and thinks they always do what their election campaign says they’ll do? Honestly, no matter which side of the street you stand on, in support of Government or against it, I think EVERYONE agrees that our “elected representatives” don’t do a good job at all at representing the people. So who do they represent? This part is painfully clear…. you see, it costs MONEY to “campaign” and try to get voters to vote for you. So is it only rich people that can be politicians? Probably, but even so, they would never spend their OWN money doing this! So whose money are they spending on expensive marketing campaigns? Enter the corporate interest lobbyists. People representing major corporations, whose only goal is to increase profit margins and market domination, are the ones plunking down millions of dollars into the politicians’ pockets. So if they are the ones paying for the marketing that the people ultimately buy, whose interest do you think the politicians represent? Doesn’t take a genius to conclude on this one.

But now is this the real problem? Do we need to get rid of corporate money on political campaigns, get rid of lobbyists whom only represent the greed and power of corporations? I mean, corporations don’t have a right to vote, they are not citizens, they are not eligible for their own vote, but yet, they control way more than the people do!!! How interesting. So yea, maybe one good way of dealing with this is to eliminate lobbyists and corporate donations, but we all know what would happen after that… it’ll just happen in the shadows (as much of it does anyway even now).

So what else can we do?

Consider the very nature of “elected representatives” and where it came from. It was born in a world where technology did not exist, where we still wielded swords and wore white wigs as a sign of authority. It comes from a really ancient and outdated world where the people were so disconnected that the ONLY PLAUSIBLE way of creating a democracy was through elected representatives. There was NO WAY to hear the voice of each citizen!

But does that hold true today? Do we still need to elect representatives to make all the decisions for us? In a world dominated by the Internet and computer technology, we humans are communicating at an astronomical rate when compared to just 100 years ago.

Why aren’t we eliminating the old wigs and adopting a more sophisticated approach to a Government By The People? We have the technology today, world-wide, to enable each and every citizen an individual vote on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE on the table!

Sure, its corruptible as well, all things are. But there are ways of reducing that corruption, we’d figure it out. But as it stands, we have a level of corruption running rampant in all countries today that is completely out of control! This old system of elected representatives is NOT working and hasn’t worked for many generations! It is remarkably outdated I’m surprised people still waive their banners to the notion!

We live in a world today where each individual has the ability to give THEIR PERSONAL VOTE on every single issue. Could you imagine a Government that is actually responding to the majority vote? We’ve never had it though we were raised to believe we did. Could you imagine the drastic advances we would enable through a true majority vote? Sure there’d be conflicts, when a vote is so close to 50/50, but an enlightened culture would not simply oppress the minority, instead, a think tank could assess the issue and come up with alternative solutions that might make the vast majority more happy with the conclusion. There’s no end to human ingenuity, but whilst we remain driven by survival and greed, we cannot realize our true potential!

The Government is YOURS!

And so is its MONEY!!!

Stop referring to “The Government” as some separate entity, some separate force, some other thing you must contend with! The government is an organizational idea put in place BY The People to HELP The People!!! The government doesn’t have a job, it doesn’t make its own money, it has no salary! We all think of the government as having a massive amount of money, TRILLIONS of dollars, oooooh how rich!

But if it has no salary, no job, doesn’t actually WORK for a living – where does it get its money? FROM YOU OF COURSE!!! Through these “taxes” that nobody actually voted on, you GIVE the government YOUR money! But since the Government is YOURS, then SO IS THE MONEY! All that money the Government has IS YOURS! It BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE!

Shouldn’t you be a little pissed that the government has been spending 10s of MILLIONS of dollars to build a simple bridge? Who the fuck authorized that nonsense? Why are we allowing the government to overspend on roads, bridges, and general infrastructure? The companies that get the contracts are WAY OVERCHARGING for their services, just because “hey its the government, they got the money” – they set a standard to the pricing, with a profit margin of 50 million percent!!! It doesn’t NEED to cost that much! Why are we not demanding that social services be provided by companies that give 100% transparency to their costs, with a proper profit margin fixed in? Do you realize how much of YOUR MONEY is wasted on over-spending?

Thats not even to get into all the things YOUR government is spending on things that YOU would NEVER agree to! Why are you not demanding 100% open books on ALL government spending? Why aren’t you demanding a voice in every dollar spent?

Could you imagine? What would happen if THE PEOPLE actually decided what the money was spent on, and what salaries the government jobs pay? Holy shit is all I can say – what a new world that would be! Suddenly we’d have a world being shaped FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE!

As it stands, major corporations driven by power and greed are controlling our governments. By their own purposeful actions, THEY have put the governments in debt (to whom is a whole other topic). By natural reasoning, it is the CORPORATIONS that can assume this debt since THEY have been calling the shots that created it. The people are hereby FREE of all previous debt generated by these corporations, and take back their government to be operated as it was originally intended, BY THE PEOPLE.

As the video above suggests, WE HAVE THE POWER!